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The latest issue of the magazine, the Economist, has a cover story of the title of this blog. It is a third party (not US nor Chinese centric) and relatively objective view about this issue https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/10/18/the-end-of-engagement . I don’t know if this URL is available in China (let me know if this is not true and I’ll try to give a sanitized version of the article for ScienceNet). However, in my opinion, there is nothing offensive that the Chinese public should be prevented from seeing. Thus read it with an open mind. The article explore both historical and current issues between China and the US and concludes that while rivalry between the two countries are inevitable but war will be disastrous for both sides https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2169551/donald-trump-targets-china-pulling-out-missile-deal-russia#add-comment .

Note added 11/3/2018One more new TED talk on the subject :https://www.ted.com/talks/graham_allison_is_war_between_china_and_the_us_inevitable?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2018-11-01#t-268011